Watch the trailer for The Before! The Before is a romantic drama centering Black queer and trans folk as they navigate their love lives through the findings of a mysterious photo album.
Script Supervised by Janai Cherry
Written and Directed by Olivia Miles
Produced by Shannon N. Brown
Money Control (2021): After Raven learns she is facing eviction, her friends find out how far she'll go to get her ends.
Co-Produced, Directed and Edited by Janai Cherry
Co-Produced by Darria Simone
Written by Darria Simone and Aniyah Thornton
"When It Follows" (2021): When a girl with sticky fingers stick to the wrong object, she becomes followed by a supernatural being.
Produced by Janai Cherry
Written and Directed by Taja Copeland
Will You Be My Quaran-tine? (2020) is a short documentary that shows how two women, Marjorie Cherry -- a Caregiver for her mother who lives with Alzheimer's and Ronjee Cherry -- a Mother and busy Cosmetologist are adjusting to life during the COVID-19 Lockdown of 2020.
Produced, Directed and Edited by Janai Cherry
Here is a fun video invitation to Michelle Obama by Black Girls Vote Morgan State University's chapter. (2020)
Filmed and Edited by Janai Cherry
Stop Scrolling (2019) is a short film Written and Directed by Keyonna Penick that I had the pleasure of editing for a project in my Fall 2019' Advanced Digital Editing class at Morgan State University.
Edited by Janai Cherry
Written and Directed by Keyonna Penick
Janai Cherry's Demo Reel. Please enjoy short compilation of all my favorite shots of my work spanning from 2018-2020!